Think Like John Wick - How to Improve Your Focus, Reactions, and Decision Making

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This post explores the many ways we can train reflexes, focus, processing speed, and decision making. Along with visual intelligence, sports vision, psychomotor vigilance and more. These are crucial skills for athletes and military, that allow smarter decisions under pressure, and split-second reflexes. However, these are also traits that can benefit the
The best part? Focus, reactions, and decision making have all been demonstrably improved through a variety of interventions. This is the cutting edge of functional training, and the future of fitness in my opinion.
I explore a number of theories in this video, but also suggest several strategies you can use right now to boost your working memory, focus, etc. The exciting thing is that this stuff works. More than ANY nootropic, I have found these exercises have boosted my own Dual N-Back scores, gaming performance, and more.
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I can speak of improved reflexes/reaction speed when training for boxing and kickboxing. After a few months it became really apparent when anything fell while doing house work, I caught it immediately when previously It would've ended on the floor first. It was really cool to witness first hand.

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What exercise did you do to improve your reaction time

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@@shahinsha3555 I meant in general training for the martial arts. I took MMA fighting which covered the different parts(BJJ, kicking, boxing, grappling). Fighting with your hands when sparring was the main thing that improved reaction time because if you don't get fast, you get hit.

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Sorta related, I worked in a deli with some unfortunately weak shelves during the earlier part of the pandemic, I got frequent comments from my coworkers about how in the middle of serving a customer I could turn around and catch the product or at the very least bump it onto the bottom rack and immediately go back to slicing as if it never happened. I fucking hated that job but being stuck doing it definitely improved my situational awareness in some aspects

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One exercise i've come up with is tossing a ball around in your hands while watching a video of someone driving. After the video ends, you need to log how many turns they took, which turns they took, the colour of the car, the environment etc, all while not having dropped the ball

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I do 100 x and translate it to French for greater benefits. Nice try though.

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12:23 The same effect can happen with music. Listen to a song that sounds fast, then listen to several songs that are faster. Then the first song will seem slower in tempo

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I think a big skill that is overlooked when training focus, reaction time, situational awareness, and basically everything else that can be trained is the ability to take skills that you have learned from things you’re already doing (for example a sport you participate in regularly) and apply them to your life. Essentially the idea is that you already know all of these things but the simple ability to apply these things outside of where you learned them can be crucial to achieving your goals.

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Can you make a video about aging reversing and longevity? What can we do to reverse, or at least slow aging as much as possible and living much more years than average? I would love to see anti-aging and BioHacking techniques.

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"An oddly shaped ball that bounces erratically" The rugby players are familiar

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yaicob.com Well that's... _definitely_ not where I though you were going with that.

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I have never heard the ooda loop mentioned outside of the military until today. That concept is very central in much of infantry training.

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A practical way to develop reaction time with discretion would be to pick up a job as a courier or delivery driver. Driving under pressure of time restriction, in a 360° unpredictable constantly changing environment, accessing visual memory to route and reroute according to traffic flow, while remembering address locations and processing basic math simultaneously. The bonus being you get paid to train on par with your level of efficiency.

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Focus, Precision and Detail... so cool...

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Great video you mentioned the ooda loop love to see video on how to use it effectively

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Even though this video is only 15 minutes long it felt like an hour. This an immersion that lengthened time for me and it was awesome 👏🏻

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Just started reading Functional Training and Beyond, glad I bought it. Also I've been waiting so long for this video, also could you make an updated nootropic video?

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Got your book on order won't get it till March I think but look forward to it really enjoy your work.

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....bio, buddy, pal, you keep thinking what i am thinking and i'm so happy you make videos about it lol. Seriously I've been waiting for a john wick video, thanks man!

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"How to think like John Wick"... This should be fun 👌

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Awesome editing skills

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Lol I was learning about a LOT of this stuff in my perception class in uni, well done!

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Videos like this makes me realize how often I do these techniques without thinking about it. Thanks to this channel I’m doing more brain training, meditation, and quick reaction training. John Wick is possible. I’ve seen people like that in my time in the military. I’m training to be like him myself every day. I am wondering if you are going to make a video on muscular imbalances. I can’t find much research on correcting them. Maybe overcoming isometrics or ambidexterity training.

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Super interesting stuff!!!

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Have you thought about making a Tarzan type vid? I think his physique and abilities are very underrated. A training style vid could be awesome.

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Lovely video, and gotta tell you this, bullet time does exist, like i dunno the scientific explenation of it but it does, i have experienced it in fights and extremely stressful situations (combat) its weird, you notice everything is slower and you react quicker, like if everything was in slow mo, and then afteryou have reacted to that extreme stress it goes back to normal. Love your videos man, keep it up

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good video from my life i understood two things : i found out that letting yourself be the best by removing limiting thoughts + focusing on the thing that you want to do without doubt is going to make you much faster and better

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Really nice edit) It was interesting to watch even without sound: )

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14 seconds, I would say my reactions are pretty good.

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On the simon test website or something else?

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Did you see this weeks Click on the bbc , using VR to train the British army . Is worth a watch .

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Rainbow Six Siege is great for this kind of stuff, I use it to try out tactics that I don't get to try in training or in direct combat, and because of the nature of it, it is perfect for trying out tactical thinking in a virtual simulation.

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A man of focus

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Very interesting video. In the end, if you don’t use it, you lose it...speaking about your brain’s & body’s abilities. And specificity of training really also matters in these situations.

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It's seems super imporant with so much deep to dig in. Superb funny I'm totally instrested for these things these days... Something like we are all connected somehow with some super consciousness or something. I often wonder of this...

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The video content is so professionally presented and extremely fascinating that it almost seems a disservice to frame it around being like John Wick. I get the connection but it almost feels like the information given is... above that? I dunno maybe I just expected a video about a few brain exercises and instead got an essay backed up by scientific sources

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I really wasn’t prepared for the message of this video to be “Reject humanity. Return to Monke”

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hey @the bioneer could you do a video on how ballerina's train. I find their spacial awareness, ability to not get dizzy and their overall athleticism to stand on their toes and so forth quite fascinating and they seem to be quite disregarded when exploring different athletes training systems.

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NDS Brain Age and Flash Focus were 10 years ahead of the curve really good for sharpening one's skills

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This video is awesome. I use ping-pong as a form of training vision and reflexes

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Amazing as always! I would also totally love to see a study on DOOM Eternal. Ive put in over 100 hours and I can beat the game easily on nightmare. I’ve noticed that I have noticeable improvements in my focus and ability to pick “targets”.

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When you talk about time slowing down during sports, I have noticed things like that happening. I'm sure most people have. But another interesting thing is when you watch a short video and you're trying to figure out what it is it seems like it takes really long the first time, then the second watch through it seems to happen in real time.